CHERYL SUMSION (soprano) has performed and recorded for four seasons with the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir in Toronto, and has sung both as a soloist and as a chorister with other professional choirs in Canada where she has been an annual soloist for performances of Handel's Messiah. Cheryl has sung on eleven commercial CD releases of choral and children's music, and has performed in or directed 18 musicals. She has also performed throughout England during three Cathedral Choir Tours. With the baroque ensemble Arcady, she has sung the title role in Handel's Esther, as well as roles in staged performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and Handel's Acis and Galatea. Other musical theater credits include leading female roles in The Gondoliers, Sorcerer, Pirates of Penzance, The Boyfriend, Oklahoma! and The Music Man. Cheryl is an Honours Music graduate of the University of Waterloo. Her graduate studies include baroque vocal technique and performance practice, with Julianne Baird, as well as work in vocal pedagogy and the science of voice production.